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Talk about mis-direction, this is just a regular foam mattress pad. I bought another one about a month ago that is great. This one is WAY overpriced for what it is. Plus it expands when you open, so it is crazy expensive to try to get into a box to ship back. First bad experience with Overstock and I sure hope they provide better oversight of product descriptions in the future. Otherwise, I may stop shopping.
I wish that I'd purchased a memory foam topper that was solid and not contoured. Before I saw them on this site, I purchased a "non-contoured" topper for my brother at a retail store. It was a little more expensive but was much heavier in weight, and provided much more cushioning and comfort.
I purchased 11 of these this year for graduation gifts, rather than sending money. I ordered the California King size memory foam and had them mailed all over the country (love Overstocks free shipping for members) Dorm beds have twin extra long mattresses. The California King folded in half fits a dorm bed perfectly and the students I have sent this too in the past still love the gift. I prefer a thicker memory foam, but for this use 2 inches becomes 4 inches and when they move on to an apartment with a bigger bed they are not stuck with a twin mattress topper on a queen size bed. The foam is very easy to cut down to size when that time comes. For the price, this was a great purchase.
If you are going to get this topper go 1 size up. We have a queen and it didn't quite go to the edges of the mattress. It is a nice topper though. We had a 3 inch before and this is just the right amount of cushioning. The contour in the picture is not the same as the contour on the topper. It has swirls and zig zag patters. If you want something really plush go 3 inches, if you are looking for something that adds comfort without overdoing it, the 2 is great.
Aside from the fact that the actual topper was ripped before we even unrolled it, the quality is very, very poor. It does not have the waffle-texture and it is similar to those you can find at the Family Dollar type stores. I knew the price was too good but initially thought I'd chance it. Never even put it on the bed. Needless to say, we sent it back immediately and Overstock kindly credited my account in an expedient and timely manner. They also offered to send an identical mattress topper in place of the damaged topper which I respectfully declined. Happy to report we received and extra *** credit for having to stand in line at UPS for return delivery.
Pretty cool!! I have not ever used a mattress topper. What a pleasant surprise! I should have invested years ago! I understand there are several types available, but I am satisfied with my first purchase for teenage boys' room. He has no complaints.
I bought this to use for fillers for two dog beds. My dogs seem to love it. Not terribly economical, but I already had the covers which were still in good condition and needed to redo the filler inside. I do believe next time I will just buy new beds though.
Purchased this topper for my daughter's dorm room. She seems happy with the comfort this topper offers. Thanks.
This really helped us get a great night sleep. It's just thick enough !
Opened it up and left it out for about a week. No odor like some others. Fluffed up nicely. Doesn't move or roll during the night. A little hard to roll up for storage, but I will make a bag for it. Definitely worth it for the trailer!
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Barbara Kingsolver's, The Poisonwood Bible, is written so beautifully and reads so effortlessly that it surely will be seen as one of fiction's greatest achievements in the second half of the last century. The story of a missionary zealot going to Africa in 1959 with his wife and four girls in tow to convert Congolese souls is a simple one until suddenly it's not. Africa and its peoples live by the rules of nature and culture and when the Reverend ignores this through arrogance, pride and stupidity he changes lives forever, just not the ones he wanted. If God does harshly judge the Tribes of Ham rest assured He will do the same ten-fold to those agents of change; the ones that stripped Africa of its natural resources, those that forced alien religious customs, and the greedy warmongering politicians responsible for deaths of untold millions. I once heard Richard Leakey say, "Anthropologically speaking, we are all of African origin". That seems like a good point of reference to begin moving forward from this dark period of a Continent no longer dark.
This was an intense, heartfelt, and great book! See my full review at: http://booksandmiscellany.blogspot.com/2008/09/poisonwood-bible.html
A great story of one American missionary family in the Belgian Congo in the mid-20th century. Told from the perspective of several different (and entertaining) characters, it is a very well done book. It focuses on a familiar Kingsolver theme of Western culture's mistaken belief in its superiority (in this case, Western culture is represented by Christianity of the Baptist variety).
There is so much to say about this book. It is excellent. I love the way she puts words together. It is so poetic and says so much. I think this is a book that could be read over and over. I enjoyed her characters. I loved the characters of each of the girls, especially Adah but I liked how she presented Rachel even though she is hard to like. Learning about the history of Africa and politics and how it has impacted Africa was very interesting.
What a phenomenal novel. I wanted to read this acclaimed fiction for years, and now that I have, I only wish I had read it sooner. The story of a misguided missionary, and the wife and four daughters who are trapped in his skewed vision, is an engrossing read that handles several complicated and controversial topics with great skill.
The mother, Orleanna, opens the tale in the prologue. She is clearly recounting events long after they have passed, reminiscing about her time in Africa and evoking nostalgia and loss, without revealing too much of the story. The next chapter backs up in time to the moment the Price family departs for Africa, and is narrated by Leah. The daughters - Rachel, Leah, Ada, and Ruth May - all hold quite different perspectives on their new adventure in life, and the novel cleverly alternates between points of view to tell the story. Orleanna is only the voice at the beginning of each section, and then the daughters take over. Although Nathan Price is the architect of their lives in Africa, the story never belongs to him. Just as his wife and his daughters are the ones who accept Africa (each in distinctly individual ways), they are also the ones with a voice, and Nathan is just an orator whose words are lost in the air.
Don't feel bad for him - Nathan Price is a horrible man. He is a bully, abusive, and self-righteous. He was always zealous about God, meeting Orleanna as an earnest tent revival pastor, but his war experiences took that excessive faith and twisted it into diabolical applications. Add to that society's view of the inferiority of women and minorities, and you have the makings of a character that is easy to detest. More importantly, Nathan poses a formidable obstacle, a challenge that each of the women must face and try to overcome through much of the story.
He brings his family to Africa because he wants to save the natives, whether they are willing or not. Almost immediately, Nathan and his family realize that their carefully laid plans mean nothing in their new home. Their meeting with the Congolese villagers is wild and frantic, far removed from the holy sermon Nathan had prepared. The seeds that Nathan and Leah bring, hoping to teach the Africans about properly constructed gardens, run riot, proliferate in all the wrong ways, out of control, and do not produce fruit or create gigantic monstrosities of familiar vegetables. What is worse, the church remains embarrassingly empty week after week, and no one will allow Pastor Price to baptize their children in the river.
As their plans unravel, the girls and their mother begin to adapt to their new home, but their father refuses. Even when he learns that the villagers frown on baptism because a little girl was killed by a crocodile in the river not long ago, he remains unshaken. He will do things his way - which he claims is God's way - only. Whatever loyalty he claimed from his family drops away, piece by piece, until it is clear that the women see him as the enemy, just as most of the villagers do. The tension is palpably high as the Price family live almost two years in the small village of Kilanga, with Nathan stubbornly clinging to ideas that clearly won't work, and the women doing their best to scratch out a living without any help from the man. Calamitous events pile on more and more pressure. The Belgian government cedes ownership back to the Congolese people, only to work in secret conspiracy with the United States to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the people's democratically elected leader. These large political events take time to trickle down and impact the Prices. More domestic conflicts weigh heavily, though, such as the "election" Chief Ndu holds in church to oust Jesus, or the night when army ants overrun the village, and everyone must flee or die. Bigger and smaller conflicts combine to lead to one devastating tragedy for the family: the death of one of their own.
This climactic moment has a huge impact on the family, dispersing them and setting a new course for their futures. The tone of the novel shifts here, as well. The reader moves from a narrative that develops the events over a two year period in great detail, with tension rising to unbearable levels, to a broader focus, giving us generalized overviews of the women as they spiral further and further away from their childhood in Kilanga. The next two sections read like an extended denouement. The story checks in with the girls who are soon adults, often jumping over many years in between chapters, focusing on a few important scenes and summarizing the rest of the information. This change in style is intentional, though; first we live through the dramatic year and a half with them, and then we witness how that experience effects the rest of their lives.
I was fully engaged with this story, from the moment I read the prologue until the closing pages. The characters are amazing, and to see an author juggle five different points of view so effectively and authentically is reason enough to pick up this book. Each of the women in the novel are complicated and fully-fleshed people, and we witness their evolution. Despite being from the same family, and experiencing the same huge transformative experiences, they respond to events in ways unique to their personalities. Also, witnessing what happens in Africa from five different perspectives reinforces a theme from the novel: that our world is full of colliding cultural values, and these intersections can be tragic, especially when one or both sides conduct themselves with ignorance and self-righteousness. Historical events may have a much darker side than we like to believe, and we should look at them from other angles, from how people on the other side may see them. The author weaves in many strong motifs, such as the multiple meanings of religion and faith, intricately connected with the meanings and miscommunications in language, our complicity in horrible events because we willfully shut our eyes, the relationships between family and sisters and lovers, and the costs of being a so-called civilized society. This is a complicated (in the best sense of the word) novel.
Aside from the wonderful characters, and the thematic depths of the book, the plot is simply compelling. I was tense while I read about the transplanted Price family. Their lives always felt on the brink of destruction. The way their father treated them could move me to fury, and the political upheavals had me on edge. Also, Kingsolver brings in the historical context with great skill, entwining it with the lives of the characters, and therefore making potentially distant events more accessible to readers. The chapters are generally small, and with the alternation from one daughter to the next, I was eager to begin the next one. With these structural techniques in place, the pace of the story flowed easily. The novel is that wonderful combination of well-crafted and intentional writing with fascinating characters and plot. Kingsolver earned all the praise she received for this quality book.
Kingsolver once wrote that ""The point [of portraying other cultures] is not to emulate other lives, or usurp their wardrobes. The point is to find sense.'' Her effort to make sense of the Congo's tragic struggle for independence is fully realized, richly embroidered, triumphant.
A writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books.
The Congo permeates ''The Poisonwood Bible,'' and yet this is a novel that is just as much about America, a portrait, in absentia, of the nation that sent the Prices to save the souls of a people for whom it felt only contempt, people who already, in the words of a more experienced missionary, ''have a world of God's grace in their lives, along with a dose of hardship that can kill a person entirely.''
Although ''The Poisonwood Bible'' takes place in the former Belgian Congo and begins in 1959 and ends in the 1990's, Barbara Kingsolver's powerful new book is actually an old-fashioned 19th-century novel, a Hawthornian tale of sin and redemption and the ''dark necessity'' of history.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060786507, Paperback)Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148654 this RAM. There's also an 8GB version, which I'd get for running Windows. For unRAID you'll be less RAM-dependent.
I also considered FreeNas but from what I read, it's not flexible in extending arrays. Same thing with WHS as the drive extender was pulled out.
The drive pooling features that were DROPPED from WHS come back in full force in Win8 as "Storage Spaces". Full pooling support.
Unraid seems to be the "in" thing nowadays for nas builds as it's efficient to not spin any hdd in the raid array that's not being used since it's not striped but uses a single parity drive. That makes hdd independent and recovery shld be easier fr what i read.
FlexRAID works exactly the same way, plus runs in Windows and you can run the parity calculations on a schedule instead of realtime, to isolate all of that extra CPU and overhead.
With Win8, I haven't read much about it but just high level and of course it's not free but looks to be a viable solution as well. I think I'll try unraid first since the first 3 hdd setup is free and go from there. It's just I have to make the unraid nas be dedicated for its purpose as it cannot serve as htpc and nas at the same time. While w Win8, it can boot as htpc and function as nas as well from what you described. I also plan on checking out XBMC as front end to access nas files. Right off the bat, for now I'll use my old ps3 dlna to stream media. So there, I'm trying to keep the budget down w no ssd add on and just use free unraid setup..
Btw just a thought about the 5.25bay of the CM120, why don't you just use velcro on the SSD? Saves you $36 lol
One slot for the SSD, sure, but three additional slots for extra 2.5" drives to keep expanding my storage pool... you can get a 2.5" 1TB drive for like $60-70... so a good way to squeeze every last bit of space out of the case for adding storage capacity. I wouldn't buy this thing until I actually had to add more drives of the 2.5" variety...until then, yes velcro the SSD to the case.
Thanks for the Win8 insights. I'll do some more reading on Win8 as the prospect of using the box also as an htpc is interesting rather than making it just a dedicated nas with unraid setup. I'll have to add an ssd and Win8 to the cost to go that route fr my original plan. I just wonder how the speed of Win8 storage spaces vs Unraid compares. Feature wise Win8 wins as the box becomes htpc as well. Nyway sorry for the guys reading the sort of off topic.. This started off buying the WD Reds which is perfect for these nas builds =))
just read about some forum about a bug in Win8 storage spaces, this may have been fixed. just a warning..
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If you like the idea of a full-feature OS but aren't sold on Storage Spaces to do storage pooling, then FlexRAID would be a good middle-ground. In the benchmarks I've seen, with parity calculations either in realtime or on a off-hours schedule, performance is pretty close to native disk speed... like in the 95MB/s and up territory. FlexRAID still lets you add to your drive pool later, the same way Storage Spaces does.
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That sounds like a mighty fine option, especially considering how easy it is to migrate an OS install from an HDD to SSD (using any one of the several pieces of s'ware designed to do this, including realign partitions for an SSD).
One more piece of information to potentially sway you (haha I don't know why I'd want to sway you... I have nothing to gain by it...especially being an AMD stockholder ) ... I've seen several breakdowns of overall power consumption, Windows vs various Linux flavors vs the handful of Linux-based NAS operating systems like unRAID, and compared against a traditional NAS... the Windows box is the only thing that comes close to being as low-powered as a NAS device. WIndows is by far the most optimized to reduce power draw on components... comes down to maturity of the OS and drivers, etc.
haha i appreciate your input as this is my first stab to build a custom nas. i personally am leaning to go flexraid now that i found one 500gb hdd lying around. I also checked DriveBender, Stablebit, and DrivePool but the stability and maturity seem to be not there yet vs FlexRaid/unRAID (just fr what i read). I also have a Win7 pro64 license so no issue there. My only concern is boot time fr Win7 (I'm sure boot up from unRAID is faster) as I plan to only turn on my nas/htpc during nights n wkends. I plan to prob just put it to sleep and wake it up when i need it. I still have to find out if I can schedule the wake up times from bios or somewhere else.
This FlexRaid build would be for a nas/media server/secondary pc as I really need to wire this nas and the tv is downstairs so I really can't make it to function as htpc. I got my macbook pro as my main workhorse. My old pc is just a Dell Inspiron Q6600 which would be obsolete even vs this low profile i3 build lol. Then I plan to use my old mac mini as front end with XBMC, then i can use iPhone and/or tablet xbmc app as remote. Sounds like a plan? =))
You mentioned XBMC.... reading the beginning of your paragraph before you said XBMC I was actually going to suggest Plex Media Server, another great use for this home server build. I'm currently running Plex off my desktop and feeding a number of clients, and plan to migrate that function over to the NAS/server once I build. There's a Plex app for my Samsung TV, and there's plex for Apple TV, Roku, and tons of other devices... so cost of entry would be very low if you want to add some 'smart tv' functionality to your TV downstairs if it has none. I actually just set up "Rasplex" for my bedroom TV... which runs a Plex client off a $35 Raspberry Pi with a USB wireless N adapter. Just two plugs coming out of it: one going HDMI into the TV, and one USB which actually plugs into a USB port on the TV and sends enough power to not require a wall wart
Plex is forked off XBMC, but I think their media detection engine is pretty rock-solid compared to XBMC, and it's just as extensible. If you aren't already wired into XBMC, try them both out.
I also run an app called Serviio, solely for it's very simple DLNA sharing. There's DLNA support built into windows that's part of Media Player, but it sucks, creates too many subfolders when you browse from a DLNA device (such as a Samsung TV with 'AllShare')... but Serviio let's you control what categorization folders to expose to devices browsing. Basically, I run it as a backup to Plex.... if Plex has some issue/crashes/is slow for some reason, rather than frustrating my fiance while trying to troubleshoot, I just cut over to using the DLNA client built into the TV instead of the Plex app. I have it configured to point to the very same folders Plex monitors for media. I don't use it often but its a nice backup to have around. Any DLNA device you could plug into your TV would support this.
Re: shutting down, etc --- you could configure all your network devices for Wake-On-LAN, that's one option. Other option is just enable Windows' Hybrid Sleep feature... it sips very little power and is pretty much instant-on. Windows 7 and 8 both support very low-power sleep states. I know unRAID is smart about spinning your disks down when idle, but Windows can be configured to do the same, and I think FlexRAID even has some power management settings of its own to let you get more granular.
I could keep making recommendations all night If you're a uTorrent user, I'm also doing some really cool stuff with an app called FileBot, which has allowed me to set up a fully automated TV show downloader/file extractor/file renamer/file copier process. As a bonus, after it finishes running its magic, it even phones up my Plex instance and triggers him to rescan his library for new media Way cool.
Very good point on the Plex media player.. really new to these apps as right now I just control my mac mini as my htpc beside the tv with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I used to use my dns 323 nas but it's too slow to stream or at least the last time I tried. Reading some forums and articles, I found out that yes I can run Plex on it, run an app like Remote Buddy then connect to my NAS and use a remote (iPhone, android or ipad or even apple or PS3 remote) to control Plex running inside mac mini. It's just I'm not sure if my old 2ghz mac mini can play 1080p videos to my tv, i think I've tried 720p before and it was ok. If it's no good, I may get Roku or Apple tv to give my tv some smart tv functionality next time. My old ps3 shld work as my front end for now.
I'm still looking for FlexRaid's feature that spins down the hdds automatically when not in use. I can't seem to find a definite answer in forums though some swear FR spins down hdds automatically. I think it's more of a controller function. Also read that Windows got some bug or needs an updated driver to make it work. Needs more reading on this. I still have time as haven't received the hdds yet.
Something new to learn each day. =))
I'm still looking for FlexRaid's feature that spins down the hdds automatically when not in use. I can't seem to find a definite answer in forums though some swear FR spins down hdds automatically. I think it's more of a controller function. Also read that Windows got some bug or needs an updated driver to make it work. Needs more reading on this. I still have time as haven't received the hdds yet.
Something new to learn each day. =))
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I found this thread -- http://forum.flexraid.
Also with unRaid, they have this optional cache drive that is supposed to speed the write processes up as well as prevent disk fragmentation. Not sure if this is already built in into FlexRaid.
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Please never show that on television. Most awful thing I've ever seen live.—
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I have never seen teammates react to an injury like this. The whole team can't bear to watch. This is college hoops' Theismann.—
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Russ Smith was literally in tears.—
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Thoughts and prayers for Louisville's Kevin Ware.—
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My prayers go out to that boy!!—
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OHHHHH!!! MY GOODNESS!!! Never want to see that… Wow.—
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I have never seen anything like this before. Four Louisville players in the middle of the floor almost in tears after seeing Ware's leg.—
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Really sad to a see any competitor experience what just happened to Kevin Ware…my thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.—
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I've never been in a building that went from that loud to this quiet so quickly. This is horrible.—
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That was hard to watch! Louisville player just broke his leg! U never wanna see that happen! Everybody on the court is crying even coach K!—
Brett Myers (@TheOutlaw39) March 31, 2013
If you expect these kids to play a game in front of millions after that, then they're not amateurs. Cut the shit.—
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This entire crowd is silent and on its feet while the stretcher is out waiting to take Kevin Ware off the court.—
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My thoughts and prayers go out 2 Louisville's Kevin Ware and his fam. That was an awful injury! Tough 2 watch!—
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Entire place, Duke bench and fans, Krzyzewski all clapping on feet while Ware put on stretcher.—
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Praying for this kid. #Louisville—
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It looked like a few Louisville players were throwing up—
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That was awful……have never witnessed anything like that on a common basketball play. Prayers to Kevin Ware.—
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Ware's injury clearly one of worse in NCAA tourney history. So emotional for both teams—
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Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware.—
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It's more graphic in basketball b/c no pads or full length pants, you literally see Ware's bare leg do … that.—
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Pitino wiping away tears on the bench. My God, what a surreal scene.—
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Nah, I aint even trying to watch that replay. Not now. Not ever—
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I have never in my life seen a injury like the one suffered by "Ware" from Louisville ….My PRAYERS go out to him & his family!—
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Heart breaking for the Louisville player who just broke his leg. I had the same injury as a teenager sliding into 3rd base. #Getwell—
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There are no words for how I feel seeing what's happening to kevin ware….I'm nauseous … Never seen anything that bad in sports—
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The one time I watch basketball the worst thing ever in the history of basketball happens to Kevin Ware's leg #dannyMagariel #poorboy—
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Thoughts and prayers go out to Kevin ware of Louisville. One of the worst injuries I've ever seen.—
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OMG Kevin Ware … Hope he is okay and can come back healthy from this … It hurt me to see that… Wish u the best..—
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Pray for Kevin Ware—
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My prayers go out to L'ville's Kevin Ware. May his family stay strong and support him in a speedy and healthy recovery!!!!—
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Prayers to Kevin Ware and his family.. So sad.. I'm praying for you bro.—
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I just saw the worst athletic injury ever … Ware from Louisville went to block a shot and looks like his leg broke when he landed.—
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Santa took a break from his sleigh and made his way to UVa. Children's Hospital in an ambulance Tuesday morning to surprise kids who weren't able to spend Christmas at home this year.
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The songs of Nick Drake get under your skin, insinuating their way into your consciousness through the gentle contours of their melody lines and the expressive urgency of their lyrics.
And though Drake died in 1974, at age 26, with a slender discography to his credit, his work has been savored by contemporary audiences and reinterpreted by new generations of artists, among them the genre-breaking jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and, now, the Polish-born, Chicago-based jazz singer Grazyna Auguscik.
If Mehldau has captured listeners' attention by recording select Drake songs on stylistically far-flung releases, Auguscik has dug deeply into this work, devoting an entire album to Drake's oeuvre. This weekend, she'll be singing music from "Man Behind the Sun: Songs of Nick Drake" at the Green Mill, an atmospheric room uniquely suited to Drake's moody, introspective art.
That a jazz singer of Auguscik's rising international stature should devote so much of her interest to compositions by a long-gone, decidedly idiosyncratic songwriter may come as a surprise to some. But anyone who has savored the darkly Eastern European tone of much of Auguscik's work will see the progression as perfectly natural for her.
"His music is haunting music," Auguscik says. "It stays in your brain for a long time. The lyrics — they're poetry. The melodies are simple, but you can't get away from them. They stick with you, and when you perform them, you have to stick with them."
What Auguscik means is that the free-flying improvisations that she has brought to various musical settings, including, most recently, to bassist-composer Matt Ulery's "By a Little Light" recording, are not exactly what was called for in Drake's music. Instead, she says, she has aspired toward something subtler.
"It's hard to say (if) this is jazz," explains Auguscik, referring to her recorded and concert performances of Drake's work.
"We adapt his music to our style. But the songs are the songs. The lyrics are beautiful. It's a different adaptation. … The songs are melancholic. Most of his tunes are dark. But that's part of me, actually. I really like melancholic music. I feel very comfortable singing it, and it doesn't bring me down. I think this music doesn't sound melancholic when we play it."
We'll hear what she means this weekend, but surely the deep-amber quality of Auguscik's vocal tone and the long-lined lyricism of her phrasing have something to do with it. Or, to put it in other terms, the fervent, smoldering expressiveness of her singing — so deeply rooted in the music of her native Poland – can explore dark realms without sacrificing tonal beauty. Whether she's singing jazz standards, original songs, transformations of music by Chopin or repertoire by the instrumentalists in her band, Auguscik gives it all a warmly melodic glow, which could offer an unusual perspective on Drake's songs.
For this weekend's engagement, she'll by joined by a top-flight ensemble: pianist Rob Clearfield, bassist Ulery, drummer Jon Deitemyer trumpeter James Davis and guitarist John Kregor (the latter sitting in for John McLean, who's on the album). It was these musicians, in fact, who introduced Auguscik to Drake's songs several years ago, and she hasn't been able to resist it since.
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"I'm so glad we could extend (the life of) this music, which was made 40 years ago, and introduce it for the next generation," Auguscik adds.
"And I'm sure a lot of people will buy the original (recordings) of Nick Drake, because I think this music is unique."
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Donald Harrison: The mighty New Orleans saxophonist will play music from his recording "Quantum Leap," which he bills as "the crossroads where jazz tradition meets soul, science and today's dance music." 8 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 4, 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday; at the Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court; $20-$25; 312-360-0234 or jazzshowcase.com
Brian Lynch: In a significant booking, Andy's Jazz Club will present a trumpeter perhaps best known for his work with pianist Eddie Palmieri. But Lynch stands as a formidable soloist in his own right; he'll lead a quartet. 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Andy's Jazz Club, 11 E. Hubbard St.; $15; 312-642-6805 or andysjazzclub.com
Dee Alexander: One of Chicago's greats, vocalist Alexander leads her Evolution Ensemble, with cellist Tomeka Reid, bassist Junius Paul and drummer Ernie Adams. 10 p.m. Friday at Katerina's, 1920 W. Irving Park Road; $10; 773-348-7592 or katerinas.com
"Elevation III: The Gathering": Percussionist Kahil El'Zabar offers a multimedia event featuring music, video, fashion and live painting. The band will include trumpeter Corey Wilkes, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins, bassist Junius Paul and pianist Robert Irving III. 7 p.m. Friday at Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St.; $20-$30; 773-523-0200 or senseculture.com/elevation
Paulinho Garcia: The extraordinarily subtle Chicago singer-guitarist blends jazz with idioms of his native Brazil in deeply personal ways. He'll lead his quartet. 10 p.m. Saturday at Katerina's, 1920 W. Irving Park Road; $10; 773-348-7592 or katerinas.com
Brienn Perry: A magisterial jazz baritone, Perry returns to his hometown in a most congenial setting: the intimate sessions at Room 43, presented by the Hyde Park Jazz Society. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Sunday at Room 43, 1043 E. 43rd St.; $10; hydeparkjazzsociety.com
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